Professional Skills And Labor Market Performance Of Undergraduate Students Desempeno Por Competencias Profesionales Y Mercado Laboral De Los Estudiantes De Pregrado

This descriptive and longitudinal research has two objectives: to describe the professional skills acquired by undergraduate students of accounting of a public University and its effect on the positioning of the labor market. For the case of Mexico, there is an extensive debate on the determinants of low labor insertion of students in the productive sector. We examine cohorts of undergraduate students for the years 2015 and 2016 including 83 and 63 observations respectively. We conduct parametric tests. Results show that, although society is changing, the needs of preparation of students remain, modify and rebound. Students principaly require full knowledge of the fiscal norms, analysis and interpretation of financial statements, as well as the application of financial reporting standards. On the contrary, there are competitions offered in the university that are not beneficial for them such as: design and operation of cost control, as well as those of registry and control of Treasury. This result suggests modifying the university education model of accounting to make it congruent with business realit